Senior Backend Engineer (Golang) - BeReal
Role Overview
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will tackle technical challenges like handling millions of users in short timeframes, contribute to scaling the backend architecture, and collaborate on new feature development. You'll work in small, autonomous teams with high ownership, focusing on Go-based microservices and distributed systems to support BeReal's growth to hundreds of millions of users.
Perks & Benefits
This role is fully remote with an international team, implying flexibility in time zones. Benefits include a competitive salary, lunch vouchers, gym membership, premium healthcare for you and your family, and wellness activities. The culture emphasizes teamwork, autonomy, and tackling exciting challenges in a startup-like environment.
Full Job Description
About Voodoo
Founded in 2013, Voodoo is a tech company that creates mobile games and apps with a mission to entertain the world. Gathering 800 employees, 7 billion downloads, and over 200 million active users, Voodoo is the #3 mobile publisher worldwide in terms of downloads after Google and Meta. Our portfolio includes chart-topping games like Mob Control and Block Jam, alongside popular apps such as BeReal and Wizz.
Team
At BeReal, we are dedicated to authenticity in social media. By encouraging users to share unfiltered moments, we foster genuine connections and celebrate real life. We are now an international team of 60+ and have 30M+ monthly active users. Backed by Voodoo, our team is fully focused on scaling BeReal into an iconic social network used by hundreds of millions.
Role
We’ve built BeReal with a tiny technology team of world-class engineers and we intend to keep this mindset as we scale it to hundreds of millions of users. To achieve this, we ship new features faster than any other scaled social network while upgrading our infrastructure. We work in small teams of generalists and give each engineer high autonomy to make product related decisions.
Tackle exciting technical challenges, given the nature of our product, which experiences spikes of millions of users connecting within a 2-minute window.
Contribute to the development of a robust architecture capable of supporting massive scale as we attract new users and expand to new countries.
Collaborate with the product and engineering teams to create new features for the app.
Analyze trade-offs and address technical challenges related to key components of our backend.
Participate in code and design reviews.
Our Stack
Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, GitHub actions, and ArgoCD.
Backend: Go, Node.js (NestJS, Nx, Typescript)
Frontend: Swift (iOS), Kotlin (Android).
Database: Spanner, PostgreSQL, Redis.
Profile
You have 5+ years of experience working on API on distributed architecture.
You have a proven experience in Go and contribute to developing high volume API microservices.
You are self-reliant and have prior experience in a startup or similar environment.
You value teamwork and thrive on challenges.
You are proficient in English as our team is diverse and international.
You have a master degree in computer science or related field.
Most importantly, you believe in the project, are motivated, and eager to embark on an exciting and challenging journey.
Benefits
Competitive salary upon experience
Swile Lunch voucher
Gymlib (100% borne by Voodoo)
Premium healthcare coverage SideCare, for your family is 100% borne by Voodoo
Wellness activities in our Paris office
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